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Second senator tests positive for coronavirus

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said on Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the second senator known to do so.

“I am strictly following the direction of our medical experts and strongly encourage others to do the same,” he said in a statement.

Cassidy got a coronavirus test on Thursday after being informed on Wednesday night that he had been exposed to an individual with COVID-19. His office said he was following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines including quarantining for 14 days and notifying individuals he has been in contact with. Continue reading.

CNN host cuts off GOP lawmaker with brutal fact check after he claims no one took Trump’s Lysol claim seriously

AlterNet logoCNN’s John King was forced to cut off and fact-check a Republican Senator on Sunday morning who tried to dismiss Donald Trump’s comments about using common household disinfectants as a means to cure coronavirus patients.

Speaking with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who was a gastroenterologist before entering the Senate, host King asked about Trump’s startling comments that the president later claimed were “sarcastic.”

“You’re a senator, but you’re also Dr. Cassidy,” King began. “I’m interested in your perspective. If you look at Google searches this past week, after the doctor talked about sunlight and using disinfectants, you see a spike for searches for inject yourself with disinfectant. We’re in the position this past week where the Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Surgeon General had to put out public statements saying, and this is my translation, don’t listen to the president, be careful here.” Continue reading.

Fact-checking Sen. Cassidy’s rebuttal to late-night host Jimmy Kimmel about the Obamacare repeal bill

The following newsletter is from the Washington Post September 22, 2017:

Politics and Hollywood can create a head-scratching moment when they merge (see: Sean Spicer cameo at the Emmys mocking his inauguration crowd size Four-Pinocchio claim). This week, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel attacked Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) over a new plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.”

Kimmel claimed the bill “will kick about 30 million Americans off insurance.” (That’s a high-end estimate.) Firing back, Cassidy said “more people will have coverage. … There are more people who will be covered through this bill than under the status quo.” Continue reading “Fact-checking Sen. Cassidy’s rebuttal to late-night host Jimmy Kimmel about the Obamacare repeal bill”

Sen. Cassidy’s rebuttal to Jimmy Kimmel: ‘More people will have coverage’

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website September 21, 2017:

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel attacked the Cassidy-Graham health-care plan on Sept. 19 and 20, and hit back at Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) for failing his own standard, “the Kimmel test.” (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

“I’m sorry he doesn’t understand. Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage.”
–Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), interviewed on CNN’s “New Day,” Sept. 20, 2017

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel attacked Cassidy over the health-care repeal plan crafted by Cassidy and Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.),  Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) as a last-ditch effort to replace the Affordable Care Act. Kimmel asserted, among other things, that the proposed law “will kick about 30 million Americans off insurance.” Continue reading “Sen. Cassidy’s rebuttal to Jimmy Kimmel: ‘More people will have coverage’”